Alyson Shontell

Editor-in-Chief, Business Insider U.S.

Alyson Shontell

Alyson is Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider US.

She joined Business Insider in July 2008 as its sixth employee. She started as a sales planner before joining the editorial team in 2010, where she became a startup reporter and then a senior correspondent. She later served as Business Insider's Deputy Editor, overseeing the Executive Lifestyle, Technology, Science and Entertainment sections, then was Executive Editor of a spin-off technology website, Tech Insider.

She has appeared on ABC, Good Morning America, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, and CBC, and she has interviewed media personalities such as Dr. Oz, technology leaders like Fred Wilson, political leaders like John Brennan, and sports star LeBron James. She is a judge for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Awards in business journalism, and has been named one of Min's Rising Stars in Media, as well as Folio's 2017 Top Women in Media.

She graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she majored in psychology and advertising.

Disclosure: Alyson owns bitcoin and Snap. She is also an investor in and adviser to The Spun, a sports-media startup founded by her husband.